My Mam had a load of Goldfish and Koi that were eaten by the local Heron. She was quite upset but when she saw the Heron. She took pity on it as "it looked so thin" she said.

The next day she got a load of Mackeral from the fishmongers and laid them on the lawn to feed the Heron. Needless to say the Heron ignored them but we were frequented by lots of Gulls for quite some time!

Glad John asked about the "ping" thing. I didn't know that either. Will do that myself then.

Hate to say this but it's the girls who seem to cotton on to these things whilst us blokes plod on indifferently. However, we are more cleverererer...........!

Daft things I do? I only sprayed a dahlia in a pot with strong insecticide last week .....I over concentrated it and poured it over the dahlia. Knew it made no sense at the time.....it was meant to control bug worm in geraniums......but still did it. Dahlia now looks dead...it's not. It will recover. But wot a silly billy I am at times. Ironically, I'm replaciNg with soap sprays so won't do that again.

I love herons. The day after we bought three new koi for the small pond at last house three herons flew overhead. They must have thought -'that's handy , one each for tea'! Neeedless to say we got the net on very quickly! They're beautiful birds - apart from when flying - they look a bit daft then. Pterodactyls

No Verd- we're more cleverererer than you - definitely...and better edjukated.